Nathaniel Whittemore

of X slash Twitter or GitHub activity, what a team of agents is working on, etc.

He also talks about fire and forget tasks, with humans triggering the Managed Agent to do a task via Slack or Teams, and long horizon tasks like Andrej Karpathy's auto research idea.

Now it's early, but some of the first experiments seem to validate some of those patterns.

Jared Orkin writes, you no longer need an engineer to run an overnight marketing analysis.

You need one sharp operator in an afternoon.

Set the schedule, set the guardrails, and walk away.

Anthropic runs the infrastructure you pay per session hour.

Now, he points out, though, the catch nobody's saying out loud, someone still has to tune the prompt every Friday and act on the brief by 9 a.m.

Monday.

That's a job.

That's the job we staff.

The agent writes the brief.

The operator runs the day.

Pawel Hurin started working on something similar to what I was trying last night.

He writes, I built my first managed agent.

Surprised how easy it was.

You describe what you want in plain English.

The platform generates a full agent config.

Model, system prompt, tools, MCP servers, permission policies, all in YAML you can edit.

I ask for an email reader that needs my approval before acting.